Classified Appreciation Quotes & Sayings

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. ("The Medusa") — Thomas Ligotti

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery. — Jack Nicklaus

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror. — Michael Rooker

So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Romantic Egoist
What's better, an idiot who never tries ... or an idiot who at least takes a shot? — Bisco Hatori

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I think about man, religion and art, I do not see any of those evolutions. — Alija Izetbegovic

If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works! — Yasmin Mogahed

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep. — Malin Akerman

Haiti is open for business! — Laurent Lamothe

It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover. — Ladyhawke